Idea: When users press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, tell them the new way to kill Xorg

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:45:21AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
>> Now that Ctrl+Alt+Bksp no longer defaults to killing Xorg, some people I've
>> spoken with don't know how to manually kill Xorg.  An idea:  It would be helpful
>> if, when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, Xorg showed a message onscreen telling
>> users:  "To terminate Xorg, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then log in as 'root', then type
>> the following command:  /usr/bin/killall -v -9 X"
>>
>> I don't know how you could show the message.  Maybe you could use xmessage(1).
>> It might not always work, but when it would work, it would be helpful.
>>
>> What do you think of my idea?
>
> http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/
>

How common is it to accidentally hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?  Seems unlikely to me.


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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project